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Definition of mythic in English:

mythic

adjective

‘Both had the same attitude to language - MacRae wanted to retain something of a mythic feel; Armitage described the result as ‘somewhere between rhetoric and conversation’.’

‘It is here that Walker's text swerves most radically from the myth of Philomela and from the mythic paradigm.’

‘Daly has an intuitive feel for the mythic nature of cinema, and knows that myth and authenticity are not mutually exclusive.’

‘The world they frequent is loosely based on Greek mythology, with gods, demigods, and mythic creatures in abundance.’

‘Such recognition may involve confronting their own deaths or entering into contact with ghosts, mythic and otherworldly creatures.’

‘The Bigfoot, or Sasquatch, was a mythic creature well-known in the Pacific Northwest - twelve feet tall, or so they say.’

‘Contemporary belief stories and older myths intermingle to create the rich mythic tapestry that forms the backdrop to vernacular and alternative religiosity there.’

‘Maybe he is a brother in mind to fellow Frenchman Albert Camus, who imagined Sysiphos, the mythic figure trying to roll a heavy stone uphill and destined to forever fail, as a happy person.’

‘It was over the maelstrom of the First World War trenches that these winged men became the mythic symbols of a new tomorrow.’

‘It is the task of art, I believe, to establish connection again with the mythic realm, to help heal the rift between myth and religion, and to open a door to the deeper meanings contained within us.’

‘The Grey Fox imagines a mythic past for the Pacific Northwest and British Columbia out of a brief moment in actual history.’

‘Not only myths, but the nature of that which makes stories mythic changes once stories are technologically reproducible and we begin to attribute authorship.’

‘The stories of coastal Aboriginal people are tales of sea creatures and their journeyings, stories that connect past mythic events with present coastal land and reefscapes.’

‘Formulated as much from myth as from historical occurrences, mythic history both produces and reflects collective historical imagination.’

‘This set a mythic food-producing vessel at the centre of a Celtic agricultural myth (of the type Frazer had created).’

‘The fluid interplay of languages in Britain during the Middle Ages is illustrated by three events in the 12c, all associated with the cycle of mythic and legendary material known as the Matter of Britain.’

‘All the mythic versions of women, from the myth of the redeeming purity of the virgin to that of the healing, reconciling mother, are consolatory nonsenses; and consolatory nonsense seems to me a fair definition of myth, anyway.’

‘There is an extensive Spanish language historiography examining the department's mythic past, with a corresponding literature in English.’

‘So it acquires a mythic status based on inference and speculation, rather than actual content.’

‘This essay examines Nemesis' mythic origin and relates her special impetus to the historical morphology’

‘I'd like to be able to counter some of the most pernicious half- and un-truths, and need to do some of it on the same battle-ground of non-rational language and mythic references.’

‘Clearly, speedy mercury was just the stuff to power these mythic ancient craft!’

‘And how are we supposed to lure this mythic creature?’

‘It is a fantasy world with mythic beasts and people wearing Victorian clothes, and speaking in the appropriate Victorian tongue - rather like the history of the tube itself.’

‘So Harris argues, ‘Given the power of our technology… we have simply lost the right to our myths and to our mythic identities.’’

‘If a painting had depth it meant that it still embodied all the mythic material that was important to the Aborigines themselves.’

‘In the earlier days of human society natural phenomena were accorded great significance and often described in mythic terms.’

‘When her interview subjects spoke of marriage as an institution, they were more likely to use the language of mythic love.’

‘In Morocco's Atlas Mountains, Berbers create a mythic monstrous figure called the Bilmawn, a man dressed in the skins of a sheep slaughtered on the first day of the Feast of the Sacrifice.’

‘But Greek metaphysics, through its ‘binary’ opposition to myth, carried its mythic antagonist with it as its doppelgänger.’

‘Meanwhile, I had been working on my own theology, inventing deities to represent the most profound forces at work in my life, and giving them symbolic correspondences and mythic imagery.’

‘Ancestors and parents inhabit Paul's anecdotal poems, which also pay close attention to local creatures, mythic and otherwise.’

‘Pinsky uses mythic language to make us see sacred texts newly, to question their implications.’